PUSHBACK: Hey MSM And Hollywood: It’s The Woke, Stupid. “And I can tell you right now, right now, I have no doubt in my mind the reason that people went this way was because they are been pushed that way by the news, by the media, by social media, by Hollywood, by out-of-touch celebrities. By these immature people, screeching baby meltdowns that you see constantly.”

IMPROPER LABELING KILLS: You Won’t Believe the Reason for Costco’s Massive Butter Recall.

ENDORSED:

We won the presidency, house, and senate. For once I don’t care about the margins. I don’t care about whether it’s a landslide.

I remember 2008-2010.

Do everything you can in the next two years as if you’d won 99 to 0.

We’ve got to turn the ratchet the other way somehow.

— Kaya (@sisterinferior) November 11, 2024

Biden did the same thing during his first two years in office — only worse.

It’s time for turnabout, GOP. Are you up to the task?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Holds the House, So Trump’s Two-Year Disruptor Clock Is Ticking. “It is Trump’s party now, but there are still remnants of the Butthurt Bush Vestige Caucus in Congress.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. It Wasn’t an Election. It Was an Intervention.

Trump drove so many mad, from the Never Trumpers to the Woke Left, because they destroyed themselves trying to destroy him. Their biggest problem was that they were never fighting the real Trump. They were fighting one they invented, a supervillain whose mere presence could end democracy itself.

It’s hard to imagine such smart people losing their critical thinking ability. Power will do that to you, though. No one gives it up willingly. But still, you’d think some of them might have had an inkling America was ready for change by now.

Leftism is a permanent political temper tantrum against human nature, so reason doesn’t much figure into it.

I MISSED THIS YESTERDAY AND WISH I HADN’T: The ‘Slaves of Liberty’: Veterans Day and the Price of Freedom.

PLEASE, STOP — I’M NOT ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR HIM AGAIN: Trump transition figure warns DOJ lawyers: Get on board or get out.

A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump’s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump’s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.

“Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Paoletta wrote in a post on X responding to a POLITICO story detailing widespread fear among DOJ lawyers about being asked to advance or defend policies they consider unethical or illegal.

“If these career DOJ employees won’t implement President Trump’s program in good faith, they should leave,” Paoletta said. “Those employees who engage in so-called ‘resistance’ against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy. … [t]hose that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.”

Trump had four years to consider how he might improve on his first term, and it shows.

NO SANCTUARY: Incoming Border Czar Has a Tough Message for Open-Borders Dem Governors. “If they’re not willing to help, then get the hell out of the way because [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)] is going to do their job.”

MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING THE TRUMP DOJ COULD LOOK INTO:

The endorsements were as fake as the candidate.

But as a legal matter, how are secret bought-and-paid-for endorsements even legal? If you can’t run a paid ad without a clear disclosure, how on earth can you run a paid endorsement without disclosure? https://t.co/J92bjYUgrJ

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) November 11, 2024

Before DOJ norms can be reestablished, there’s going to have to be major pushback against the people who broke them.

UPDATE (From Ed): Oprah seems to be trying to pull a fast one with TMZ:

I’M ENJOYING THE GLOATING: WaPo’s Brutal Election Postmortem Destroys the Democrats, and It’s Glorious.

UPDATE (From Ed): Still Fuming from Harris Endorsement Drama, Washington Post Gives Readers Advice on How to Flee the Country.

CONGRESS VOTES TO DISSOLVE THE PEOPLE, ELECT ANOTHER:

Imagine being a sitting Senator and saying you’re being “bullied”
bc voters are telling you how they want you to vote. Maybe you should listen??? https://t.co/5dnxNHOvoV

— Anna Paulina Luna (@realannapaulina) November 11, 2024

Who do they represent, anyway?

OH, THERE WAS A LOT MORE FAIL THAN JUST THAT: James Carville says Kamala Harris’ failed campaign could be reduced to Sunny Hostin’s question on ‘The View.’

THE X FILES: How Elon Musk Knew Donald Trump Was Going to Win 4 Hours Before You Did.

WHO’D HAVE GUESSED? How to lose: Parents don’t want kids to see blowjobs in library books.

THE GOOD NEWS KEEPS PILING UP: FBI brass ‘stunned’ and ‘shell-shocked’ over Trump reelection.

The Washington Times learned through several anonymous bureau sources that senior agency executives were “stunned” and “shell-shocked” by Mr. Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

“You know the fit test? How they let the standards slack on the fit test?” said the first FBI source, referring to the agency’s physical fitness requirements. “Everyone’s going to have a real problem when they’re running for the door.”

FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbate have little chance of remaining at the bureau by the time Mr. Trump is inaugurated, sources say.

Please, stop — I’m not allowed to vote for him again.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Toyota USA Chief: Hey, About Those IMPOSSIBLE EV Mandates… “I have not seen a forecast by anyone… government or private, anywhere that has told us that that number is achievable. At this point, it looks impossible.”

HMM: Crew-8 astronauts remain mum about post-splashdown medical issue.

NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick and Jeanette Epps, along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin, returned to Earth Oct. 25 on a Crew Dragon spacecraft, concluding the 235-day Crew-8 mission. But later that day NASA said that the four were taken to a Pensacola, Florida, hospital for additional medical evaluations “out of an abundance of caution.” One of the NASA astronauts was hospitalized in stable condition there, but released the next day “in good health.”

NASA did not disclose the identity of the astronaut who was hospitalized or the specific medical concern that prompted the hospital visit. At a Nov. 8 press conference to discuss their mission, the three NASA astronauts declined to discuss details about the incident, citing medical privacy.

“Spaceflight is still something we don’t fully understand. We’re finding things we don’t expect sometimes, and this was one of those times,” Barratt, a doctor, said of what he called the “medical event” after splashdown. “We’re still piecing things together on this and so, to maintain medical privacy and to let our processes go forward in an orderly manner, this is all we’re going to say about that event at this time.”

It’s probably not a space parasite, symbiote, or a rapidly mutating microbe with a crystalline structure.

MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE: CNN Gets Whiplash Over How Fast Trump Is Moving to Fix This Country.

WELL, GOOD: Court To Biden: No, You Can’t Have A Backdoor Amnesty. Not Yours. “The work of undoing the Biden Administration’s unlawful importation of millions of illegal aliens didn’t stop with Kamala’s defeat, and Texas and other states just won an important legal victory to help secure the border.”

STRENGTH: How to End the Russo-Ukraine War with This 1 Weird Trick.

MADAM PRESIDENT ASTERISK:

FANTASY HOUR ON CNN SUNDAY

'Joe Biden should resign and make Kamala the first female President.'pic.twitter.com/MmxkSRkpmn

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 10, 2024

Taking “Didn’t Earn It” to a whole new level.

SPOILER: THEY’RE TRYING TO MURDER TRUMP. Iran Denies That It Is Trying to Murder Trump, But…

READY TO MAGA (AGAIN) ON DAY ONE: A look at his opening moves in the White House.

There’s a lot on his plate but this one is a biggie:

Trump repeatedly clashed with executive branch personnel and has long insisted that unelected federal bureaucrats worked to subvert his initiatives from within the administration.

“I will immediately reissue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the president’s authority to remove rogue bureaucrats and I will wield that power very aggressively,” Trump promised in a policy video. “Second, we will clean out all of the corrupt actors in our national security and intelligence apparatus.”

He further vowed to end the weaponization of federal agencies for political purposes to prevent them from targeting conservative-leaning groups. “The departments and agencies that have been weaponized will be completely overhauled so that faceless bureaucrats will never again be able to target and persecute conservatives, Christians, and the left’s political enemies,” he said.

Read the whole thing.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Let’s Play the Blame Game! “The blame game is just getting started. Democrats are looking to blame anybody and everybody but themselves for the drubbing they took on Tuesday.”

THEY COULDN’T CALL IT THE TRUMP VICTORY RALLY? The Santa Claus rally has started early this year.

Every year, starting about now, you hear about the Santa Claus rally.

Technically, it should occur in the final five trading days of the year and the first two days in January.

But since the late Yale Hirsch coined the idea, the Santa Claus Rally has come to mean something that starts in early December.

So then it is the Trump Victory Rally.